Mapuche activists end hunger strike in Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile 
Four imprisoned Mapuche Indian activists have given up a hunger strike they began 86 days ago to protest their prosecutions under Chile's tough anti-terrorism law.

Their spokeswoman says the activists made the decision Thursday at a hospital in the central Chilean city of Victoria.

They were sentenced in March under dictatorship-era guidelines to prison terms of between eight and 15 years for robbery and for attacking three police officers and a prosecutor in 2008. The activists demand the return of the Mapuches' ancestral lands and say the government handed them overly harsh sentences.